This wicked shot, courtesy of Lockheed Martin, shows the F-35 Lightning with all of the weapons that will be tested under aircraft's Systems Development and Demonstration Weapons Suite. This represents a baseline capability that will be expanded with other weapons once the jet is fully operational towards the end of the decade.... Hopefully.

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